20XX/X/X/X.

This small town, called "Linjiang", is located in the inland mountainous area, and is a remote and backward place with a population of less than 10,000.

It is located on the north bank of the Linjiang River, although the scenery is beautiful and the air is fresh, but the news is relatively closed, the mountain road into the town is treacherous and rugged, and it is more dependent on river transportation than the towns in the plain area. Fortunately, the only railway passed through the border, so it did not make it difficult for the residents of Linjiang Town to move an inch.

No. 16 Renmin Road, Liang's Orphanage.

"Everyone, come here, this way! Today's game is dodgeball-"

"Wow, I love this game the most!"

"Go now—"

The concrete-paved open space is enclosed by an old wooden fence, and the small area inside is where the children of the Liang orphanage play and play.

"I'm going to lose it!one, two—"

"Hey, wait for me!" the little fat man, who was a little slow, fell to the end, hurriedly shouted and rushed to the clearing, and pushed the short figure standing by the door, "Go away, it's really in the way." ”

"Really, Ah Peng, you're so slow. ”

"Hey, watch my lightning catch!"

"It's not about taking it up, it's hiding from you, stupid. ”

A middle-aged woman sitting on the balcony on the second floor smiled and watched the children laugh and play.

As the director of the Liang orphanage, Liang Jing has lived in this small town for seven years. His savings and government subsidies allowed him to keep the orphanage afloat afloat, but he had to plan his expenses carefully.

"Dean Liang, the shrubs in the South Courtyard have been cleared. The young man pushed the door open and walked inside. He was dressed in a dusty uniform, like an ungraduated college student.

"Thank you for your hard work, Ziwen. It's rare to see volunteers as active as you. Liang Jing smiled and nodded, pulling out a chair and motioning for the young man to sit down.

"Where. I'm here to help out just because I love kids. ”

Chang Ziwen was not restrained, threw his coat on the back of the chair, and sat happily opposite the conscientious dean.

"I remember that the younger brother of the Ziwen family is indeed ...... I'm in junior high school this year. ”

"Yes. It's so fast, obviously it was such a small little guy yesterday. ”

Smiling and looking at the children playing below, Chang Ziwen accidentally saw a little girl in gray standing quietly in the corner. All the children were playing in the clearing, and she was the only one away from the crowd, and the scene looked rather eerie.

"Dean Liang. The kid ...... Looks like you didn't play with everyone yesterday?"

Liang Jing stared at the person the volunteer was pointing to, and was stunned for a moment, "Oh, you said Xiaoye......"

"Isn't it social?" In many orphanages, Chang Ziwen has seen children who are withdrawn and unable to fit in.

"Not really. ”

Liang Jing shook her head, looking a little regretful, "When the child was placed in front of my door, there was a burn scar on the left side of his face. ”

"Ah......h

Xenophobia is a common attribute of human beings. It is very common for children to ostracize people who are different from them. Skin color, obesity, disability, and differences in appearance are all the bases on which a child judges the other person as "not of my race". Even if the young perpetrator does not have the intention of hurting others, he will unknowingly follow the crowd and do hurtful things.

They are at such an age of innocence, purity and cruelty.

Thinking of the situation that the child might encounter, Chang Ziwen suddenly felt a little sympathetic, "Isn't it okay to leave it like this?"

"It's fine. The boy had always been quiet and didn't make any trouble. Liang Jing's gaze quickly shifted to the other young children, and her tone was a little careless.

The young volunteer sighed.

Running an orphanage is a lot of work. Even Dean Liang, who is a gentle person, must have a difficult time taking care of the situation of all the children.

No matter what kind of group you are in, there will always be people who are overlooked.

In the clearing inside the wooden fence, the girl stood silently. She looked no more than four or five years old, and her short black hair was a little messy.

For as long as she can remember, the girl has lived in this small orphanage.

Get up at 7 o'clock in the morning, have breakfast, listen to the dean's stories, after the lunch break, there is time to play, and sometimes you can get fruits distributed by the dean; after dinner, everyone has to take turns to help wash the dishes, and if you don't sleep before 9 o'clock, you will be severely criticized by Dean Liang.

All of these girls are all too familiar, including the scene of everyone playing in front of them.

Although she herself has never been involved.

"Hey, look, hasn't that ugly monster been staring over here?"

"Ahh

"Look, monster, we're not going to play with you. Get out of the way!"

After receiving a few unkind shouts, the girl did not change her expression, and silently walked into the back room alone.

It's a pity, I'd like to watch it again.

For her, it wasn't something to be sad about, it was just the norm of life as she remembered - in addition to her name, she was called "monster", "ugly monster" and so on, and the children she talked to were always very unhappy, and she loved the afternoon playtime, where everyone would laugh and play, but she would never be able to join in.

The girl knows that she is different from everyone else. Although the exact reason for this is not clear, this realization has been deeply imprinted in her mind during the four years she has spent.

There is no joy and there is no value of sorrow. Everything is as it should be – because it has always been like this, and it has never changed.

The girl's favorite person is Dean Liang, who raised herself. She sometimes smiled at herself, and when she saw the dean smiling, the girl felt that she would become happy too.

However, more often than not, Dean Liang was smiling brightly as he watched everyone playing.

I remember a story that said that laughter is an expression of happiness. Everyone made Dean Liang feel happy, that's why she smiled so well, right?The girl blinked and thought quietly.

"Then, Dean Liang, I take my leave. ”

"Goodbye, safe journey. ”

Seeing off the enthusiastic college student volunteers, Liang Jing turned around and saw the girl in gray pushing the door through the small courtyard and walking into the room.

"Dawn, go wash your hands. I'll send you apples later. Liang Jing greeted this child who was never noisy, and the smile on the corner of her mouth was not warm or cold.

The girl blinked, hooked the corners of her mouth in Liang Jing's way, and nodded obediently, "Okay." ”

During the break, the children gathered in twos and threes to talk and laugh.

"Xiaoyan, what are you doing?"

"Hmm...... There seems to be something in there. ”

The little girl with her pigtails struggled to reach through the gap between the wooden fences and pulled out a translucent palm-sized object, "What is this?"

"Ah, I know, it's called a lighter!" the boy next to him had already called out.

"Did Brother Ziwen accidentally drop it?"

"Maybe. ”

Seeing that several girls were staring at the lighter curiously and suspiciously, the little fat man Zhang Pengfei snatched the lighter and threw it with a smile, "Why, I've never seen this kind of thing?"

"Peng, what are you doing......

"I'll tell you, that's how this lighter works!"

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In the mountainous area on the outskirts, a young man dressed in black leaned against a tree, looked at his mobile phone, which was completely out of battery, and lowered his head and sighed.

When he picked up a backpack and set out on the journey, he just wanted to buy some tea leaves from a famous tea plantation nearby as a holiday gift. As the saying goes, when God closes a door for you, he will keep your head in the door—wait, doesn't that seem to say?

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

All in all, in the life cognition of young people for more than 20 years, they have never seemed to be associated with the word "good luck" as a group of people who can borrow the power of wind, rain, thunder and lightning and have "special powers". Civilized society in the 21st century does not approve of martial arts novels, such as fights and brawls, killing people and goods, but whether people with power want to clock in to work or break the law, the so-called "origin hatred of the older generation" will drag them into a strange circle and it is difficult to break free.

Faced with a black muzzle, the young man didn't want to fight with a few large bags of tea on his back, so he had to mutter, "It's better to pay off the mortgage if you have money to buy a gun on the black market".

- until the rat found himself running into the uninhabited barren mountains and forests.

The young man was wrying around, wondering if he should sneak up to the treetops in search of a way, when the vibration from his waist made him look a little surprised.

Under the cover of a long trench coat, two weapons hung from his waist. The black-sheathed broad-bladed sword hung silently, while the white-sheathed longsword next to it trembled slightly, emitting a metallic sound.

"Lan Yu, you are 'full of signals' even in this kind of deep mountains and old forests, huh?" the young man flicked the blade of the knife.

The weapons he carried, the heavy sword feather and the long sword Lan Yu, are said to be specially created for people like them by capable people in the late Qing Dynasty, which can carry the power of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and are valuable treasures.

——This statement comes from his elders who like to play tricks, the truth is unknown, and most of them are false.

The young man was reluctant to take the two weapons. Unless he threw them away and sold them for scrap metal, no amount of "priceless" treasures would be of any help to his unfortunate life of paying off his mortgage on his credit card. Besides, with this kind of ghostly thing, you can't even pass the subway security check - "carrying thunder" sounds good, isn't it just an electric connection, isn't it a three-piece utility knife that doesn't conduct electricity?

However, there is something unusual about the two weapons that have been blown out of the sky by the elders and are even about to break away from the materialist worldview. For example, the white long knife "Arashiha" can sense people with the same ability, and it will use a weak vibration to show the direction of the target.

——Nicknamed "signal detector" by young people.

"It just so happens that where there are people, there are towns and villages, and no matter how bad it is, you can ask for directions. The young man patted the long buzzing knife like a small animal, and said to himself, "I'll leave it to you, lead the way!"

Following the direction of the strong vibration, the young man walked for nearly half a day, and then gradually saw the shadow of the town. He finally breathed a sigh of relief when the sparse passers-by began to appear in view.

The crisis of "being lost in the barren mountains and mountains all his life" has finally passed, and the young man is no longer in a hurry to travel - as long as he finds a random fast food restaurant to save his mobile phone that has run out of electricity, he can find a way back at any time. So, with a bit of idle curiosity, he continued to walk in the direction indicated by Lan Yu.

People with special powers do not necessarily perceive their differences, and the young man does not intend to disturb the peaceful life of others, at most he stuffs two bags of tea as a thank you gift to the "signal source" that saved him.

After a moment, the young man suddenly stopped.

Gray-black smoke rose from the other end of the road. Although it was too far away to see what was happening, the subtle smell and heat of burning in the air could not hide from those who could communicate with the wind and rain.

His expression sank.

"Could it be...... Fire?"

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Liang's Orphanage, east courtyard.

"What's going on!" smelling a choking smell in the back room, Liang Jing hurriedly ran downstairs and pushed open the courtyard door.

Dean?

Seeing such a confused expression on Liang Jing's face rarely, the girl who had just come out of the bathroom followed and probed.

Then, I was shocked by the scene reflected outside the door frame.

The two-person tall wooden fence surrounding the courtyard was already on fire. The blazing flames burned the eyes, intensified in the wind, and the tongues of fire had even licked the brick building of the orphanage. The old fence wrapped in flames creaked and creaked, as if it might collapse at any moment.

Liang Jing, who rushed to the yard, had lost her former gentleness, and hurriedly looked for her mobile phone in her pocket, "What's going on?! Everyone hurry up and get out!"

Hearing the panic in the tone of the dean, who had always been steady, the little fat man who was in trouble was so frightened that he could barely make a sound, standing in front of the fence, his whole body trembling. Some of the timid children were already howling, and they were dragged away from the flames by a few of the older ones.

The girl who followed Liang Jing into the courtyard was suddenly stunned.

It's going to be windy.

Although she couldn't figure out where this idea came from, she could clearly "see" at this moment that a gust of wind was approaching from the front.

– This is a common occurrence in this mountain town.

The girl looked up. The fence that had begun to burn from the roots was swaying with an overwhelming sound, and the little fat man was standing by in a daze, his little face red from the boiling heat.

If something happens to them......

Is it that Dean Liang won't laugh anymore?

"Hello, is it 119? We have a fire here, the location is ...... Hmm!"

The sudden strong wind blew Liang Jing two steps back. The ensuing cracking sound made Liang Jing's pupils shrink, and the scene of the collapse of the burning wooden pillar was reflected in his eyes.

"Zhang Pengfei, be careful!!"

“...... Huh?"

Hurried footsteps rang out.

"Dawn?!Wait ......"

Boom –

After a violent boom and a heat wave, the world was plunged into darkness.

In the evening, the First Hospital of Linjiang Town.

"Thank you for helping me get the kids to the hospital. Liang Jing bowed slightly to the black-haired youth. But overnight, the lean dean seemed to be five years old, and he became emaciated.

My own and my children's homes were almost burned down, and no matter who encountered such a thing, it would not be good. Fortunately, the fire was miraculously extinguished so quickly that it did not affect the orphanage itself. Only one child was more seriously injured, and the other two suffered only minor abrasions.

"Where, it's just a matter of raising your hands. The young man smiled softly and turned his gaze to the girl who was sleeping peacefully on the hospital bed.

In the entire accident, only the child was injured by a collapsed wooden pillar and was covered with a thick bandage from his right shoulder to his forearm.

Feeling the faint but firm vibration of the long knife at his waist, the young man showed a thoughtful look.

From an angle that others could not see, his expression changed again and again, as if he was making some important decision. The silence lasted for several minutes before being interrupted by the young man's deep voice.

"Dean Liang, can you tell me about this child?"

It was a child too young, weak, ignorant, and out of step with the world in which youth lived. If she was happy in this orphanage, the young man thought that he should leave immediately, and that he must not draw innocent people into his side.

However, if ......

I don't know how long the consciousness sank in the dark, and the girl gradually woke up.

It hurts.

The sharp pain in her right shoulder caused the girl to unconsciously clench her teeth, and the memories of her pre-sleep life were awakened.

That's right. The fence in the yard was on fire. And then...... I wonder how everyone is doing now?

The chaotic thoughts urged the girl to slowly open her eyes.

- Then, she saw the brightest smile in the world.

"It's all right. ”

In the orange hue of dusk, the black-haired young man smiled brightly, as bright and warm as the clouds saw the sun.

"Is it painful? Rest assured, your injuries are not serious, and you will recover your health soon—by the way, Dean Liang asked me to tell you, thank you for saving Zhang Pengfei, everyone is safe. ”

Seeing that the girl's eyes immediately opened round, as if she saw a cat with dried fish, the speaker couldn't help but soften her voice.

"It's a little sudden, but it's ......"

The youth reaches out to the girl.

"I want to adopt you. ”

"—do you want to come with me, Dawn Night?"

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The morning sun pours into the room through the window, waking up the sleeping person.

The purple-haired girl rubbed her eyes and stared at the white ceiling of the Pokémon Center dormitory in confusion.

I always feel ...... Seems to have had a long dream just now?

Yu Guang glanced at the wall clock on the wall, and Xiao Ye quickly sat up. I have to get up quickly, I have already made an appointment to have breakfast with everyone at eight o'clock, but I can't be late.

Neatly put on his coat, washed, and Xiaoye picked up the backpack that had been sorted out and pushed open the door.

Although I can't remember it clearly...... However, it feels like a warm dream.

The girl raised the corners of her mouth and stepped into the morning light.